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...Army officers with whom he had secretly arranged to discuss surrender. They did not appear. Fearing betrayal, Kluge hurried back to his headquarters. Awaiting him there was an order to report to Hitler in Berlin. Kluge got into a car, swallowed poison and died on the way to an airfield near Metz...
...coming Government last week. Into President Salvador Castaneda Castro's office stalked 100 Army officers. They demanded a governmental shakeup, including Army autonomy. Castaneda promised to consider their demands. That night, he ordered loyal Army units to arrest suspected officers. As one unit moved up on Ilopango airfield, two rebel planes took off. Loyal antiaircraft fire hit the first plane's gas tank. The plane crashed in flames. The pilot and the gunner were killed...
Private First Class Clarence W. Ross, stationed at Las Vegas Army Airfield, peeled off his uniform at the National A.A.U. Senior Weight-lifting Championships, displayed his Varga-boy thorax and other features (see cut), which added up to a title: 1945's Most Perfectly Developed...
Final Phase? As the weather began to clear, U.S. troops plowed on to the next and perhaps final phase of the battle for Okinawa. In a quick amphibious maneuver, the Marines reached around the enemy's lines beyond the city, fought their way onto Naha airfield, largest in the Ryukus. Army troops on the east turned to free Baten Harbor. This week the 7th Infantry Division cut off the Chinen Peninsula in one of the swiftest advances of the campaign. Ahead lay flat, open land where the Japanese had little chance for effective defense...
Checking up later, U.S. officers found four more Japanese troop carriers crashed near the airstrip with some 70 occupants dead, and estimated that the original Giretsu attack had included up to twelve plane loads. Apparently the "unsurpassed loyalists" hoped to wreck the airfield, then filter into U.S. lines for sabotage...